Teapot A teapot is a vessel in which to brew tea leaves with hot or boiling water, either inside a tea bag or loose, in which case a tea strainer will be needed to catch the leaves when the tea is poured. Teapots usually have an opening on the top with lid where the tea and water are added, and a spout through which the tea can be poured.
	Teapot Dome scandal Teapot Dome is a reference to an oil field on public land in Wyoming, so named because of a rock resembling a teapot overlooking the field. It is also a phrase commonly applied to the scandal that rocked the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding.
	Tears Tears are a liquid produced by the body's process of lacrimation to clean and lubricate the eyes. The word lacrimation may also be used in a medical or literary sense to refer to crying - a primitive sign of emotional vulnerability.
	Teaspoon A teaspoon is a small spoon that can hold about 5 milliliters of liquid. It is commonly used to stir the contents of a cup of tea or coffee. Teaspoons with longer handles are commonly used for ice cream. The teaspoon is also used as a unit of volume, especially in cooking recipes and pharmacology medical prescription.
	Teat Teat is an alternative word for a nipple or breast. In cattle, goats, etc, it is the projection from the udder through which milk is discharged. Teats are also called papilla mammae. The rubber mouthpiece of a baby's Baby bottle is sometimes called a teat.
	Technetium |- | Electron affinity || -53 kJ/mol Technetium is a chemical element that has the symbol Tc and the atomic number 43. Pronounced , the chemical properties of this silvery grey, radioactive decay, crystalline transition metal are intermediate between rhenium and manganese.
	Technical Sergeant .S. Air Force enlisted rank insignia]] Category:Military ranks of the United States Air Force Category:Military ranks of the United States Army
	Technicolor Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation, now a division of Thomson SA. Technicolor was the second major color film process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color motion picture process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952.
	Technology Despite its cultural pervasiveness, technology is an elusive concept. It can refer to material objects, such as machines, hardware or utensils, but it can also encompass broader themes, such as systems, methods of organization, and techniques. It is an ever-evolving body of knowledge that both shapes and is shaped by societies.
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	Tectonics Tectonics,, is a field of study within geology concerned generally with the structures within the Crust of the Earth and particularly with the forces and movements that have operated in a region to create these structures. Tectonics is concerned with the orogeny and tectonic development of cratons and tectonic terranes as well as the earthquake and volcanic belts which directly affect much of the global population.
	Tecumseh Tecumseh, whose given name might be more accurately rendered as Tecumtha or Tekamthi, was a famous Shawnee leader. He spent much of his life attempting to rally disparate Native Americans in the United States tribes in a mutual defense of their lands, which eventually culminated in his death in the War of 1812.
	Ted Williams Theodore Samuel Williams , best known as Ted Williams, nicknamed The Kid, the Splendid Splinter, Teddy Ballgame and The Thumper, was an United States left fielder in Major League Baseball who played 19 seasons, twice interrupted by military service as a United States Marine Corps pilot, with the Boston Red Sox.
	Teddy bear The teddy bear is a stuffed toy bear for small children. It is an enduring, traditional form of stuffed animal, often serving the purpose of comforting upset children. In recent times, some teddy bears have become expensive collector's items. Teddy bear collectors are known as arctophiles from the Greek words 'arcto' and 'philos'.
	Teddy Boy 1950's Beginnings The Teddy boy youth culture first emerged in United Kingdom during the early 1950s, and soon after became strongly associated with United States rock and roll music of the period. It was typified by young men wearing clothes inspired by those of the Edwardian period, which Savile Row tailors had tried to re-introduce after World War II: "Edward" being shortened to Ted after a Daily Express headline in 1953 first coined the term 'Teddy boy', which stuck.
	Tee A tee is a stand used to support a stationary ball so that the player can strike it, particularly in golf, Tee Ball, American football, and Rugby football.
	Teff Teff or Tef is a species of lovegrass native to northeastern Africa. It has an attractive nutrition profile, being high in dietary fiber and iron and providing some protein and calcium. It is similar to millet and quinoa in cooking, but the seed is much smaller.
	Tefillin Tefillin, also called phylacteries, are either of two boxes containing Biblical verses and black, leather straps attached to them which are used in Rabbinic Judaism prayer. They are an essential part of Jewish services, and are worn on a daily basis by many Jews.
	Tegucigalpa Tegucigalpa The city is located in a valley of the same name at , and an elevation of 3,250 feet. The name is derived from the Nahuatl language Teguz-galpa, meaning "silver hills". Tegucigalpa is also the capital of Honduras' Francisco Morazn, Honduras.
	Tehran Tehran , population 7,160,094 , and a land area of 658 square kilometers, is the capital city of Iran and the center of Tehran Province. Tehran is located at . More than half of the country's industry is based there. Industries include the manufacturing of automobiles, electronics and electrical equipment, military weaponry, textiles, sugar, cement, and chemical products.
	Teiidae Teiidae is a family of lizards, generally known as whiptails, that includes the parthenogenic genera Cnemidophorus and Aspidoscelis and the non-parthenogenic Tupinambiss.
	Tektite Tektites are natural glass objects, up to a few centimeters in size, which according to most scientists have been formed by the impact event of large meteorites on Earth's surface. Tektites are the driest known minerals, with an average water content of 0.005%. This is very unusual, as most if not all of the craters where tektites may have formed were underwater before impact.
	Tel Aviv Tel Aviv is the second largest city in Israel and is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It is also the main part of the largest and most populous metropolitan area in Israel, Gush Dan . Tel Aviv's jurisdiction is 50,553 dunams . The population density is 7,445 people per km.
	Telamon In Greek mythology, Telamon, son of Aeacus, King of Aegina, and Endeis and brother of Peleus, accompanied Jason as one his Argonauts, and was present at the hunt for the Calydonian Boar. He also participated in the Trojan War on the side of the Greeks, along with his son, Ajax.
	Telecommunication Telecommunication is the transmission of Signal over a distance for the purpose of communication. In modern times, this process almost always involves the sending of electromagnetic waves by electronic transmitters but in earlier years it may have involved the use of smoke signals, drum s or semaphore.
	Telegraph key Telegraph key is a generic term for any switching device used primarily to send Morse code. Similar keys are used for all forms of manual telegraphy. Two common uses include the electrical telegraph over wires which activates a Telegraph sounder and radio telegraphy. Several variants exist.
	Telegraphy Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters, originally by changing something that could be observed from a distance . Radiotelegraphy or wireless telegraphy transmits messages using radio. Telegraphy includes recent forms of data transmission such as fax, email, and computer networks in general.
	Telemark Telemark is a Counties of Norway in Norway, bordering Vestfold, Buskerud, Hordaland, Rogaland and Aust-Agder. The county administration is in Skien. The county is located in southeastern Norway,extending from Hardangervidda to the Skagerrak coast. The coastline extends from Langesundsfjorden to Gjernestangen at the border to Aust-Agder.
	Telemarketing Telemarketing is a method of direct marketing in which a salesperson solicits to prospective customers to buy product (business) or Service (economics), either over the phone or through a subsequent face to face or Web conferencing appointment scheduled during the call.
	Telencephalon The telencephalon is the name for a large region within the brain that is attributed many functions. Many people refer to it as the cerebrum; however, it is technically referred to as the telencephalon. As a more technical definition, the telencephalon refers to the cerebral hemispheres and other, smaller structures within the brain, although the telencephalon is one of the larger divisions.
	Teleostei Teleostei is one of three infraclasses in class Actinopterygii, the ray-finned fishes. This diverse group, which arose in the Triassic period , includes 20,000 extant species in about 40 orders. The other two infraclasses, Holostei and Chondrostei, are paraphyletic. See Actinopterygii for a complete list of orders.
	Telephone The telephone or phone is a telecommunications device which is used to transmitter and receive sound across distance. Most telephones operate through transmission of Signal over a complex public switched telephone network which allows almost any phone user to communicate with almost any other.
	Telephone booth A telephone booth is a small structure furnished with a payphone and designed for a telephone user's convenience. Such a booth usually has a door to provide privacy and a window to let others know if the booth is in use. The booth may be furnished with a printed directory of local telephone numbers, and a booth in a formal setting such as a hotel may be furnished with paper and pen and even a seat.
	Telephone directory In telephony, a telephone directory is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organisation that publishes the directory.
	Telephone exchange In the field of telecommunications, a telephone exchange or telephone switch is a system of electronic components that connects telephone calls. A central office is the physical building used to operate telecommunications equipment. Telephone switches are what make phone calls "work" in the sense of making connections and relaying the speech information.
	Telephone operator A telephone operator is either * a person who provides assistance to a telephone caller, usually in the placing of operator assisted telephone calls such as calls from a pay phone, Collect call calls, calls which are billed to a credit card, station-to-station and person-to-person calls, and certain List of country calling codess which cannot be direct dial.
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	Teleprinter A teleprinter is a now largely obsolete electro-mechanical typewriter which can be used to communicate typed messages from point to point through a simple electrical communications channel, often just a pair of wires. The most modern form of these devices are fully electronic and use a screen instead of a printer.
	Teleprompter A teleprompter is a display device that prompts the person speaking with an Electronics visual text of a public speaking or screenplay. Using a teleprompter is similar to the practice of using cue cards. The screen is in front of the photographic lens of the camera, and the words on the screen are reflected to the eyes of the speaker using a mirror#One-way mirror.
	Telescope The word "telescope" usually refers to optical telescopes, but there are telescopes for most of the electromagnetic spectrum of electromagnetic radiation and for other signal types. An optical telescope is an optics tool that gathers and Focuses electromagnetic radiation.
	Telescopic sight A telescopic sight, commonly referred to as a scope, is a device used to give an accurate point of aim for weapon such as firearm, airguns and crossbows. Other sighting systems are iron sights, red dot sights, and laser sights. This article will concentrate on firearm scopes; the principles described are equally applicable to any device which needs aiming.
	Television Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving Films and sound over a distance. The term has come to refer to all the aspects of television from the television set to the television program and Transmission .
	Tell Tell or tall, meaning "hill" or "mound", is a type of archaeology site in the form of an earthen mound that results from the accumulation and subsequent erosion of material deposited by human occupation over long periods of time. A tell mostly consists of mudbrick or other architecture containing a high proportion of stone or loam as well as to a minor extent domestic refuse.
	Tellurium Tellurium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Te and atomic number 52. A brittle silver-white metalloid which looks like tin, tellurium is chemically related to selenium and sulfur. This element is primarily used in alloys and as a semiconductor.
	Telomerase Telomerase is an enzyme that adds specific DNA sequence repeats to the 3' end of DNA strands in the telomere regions, which are found at the ends of eukaryote chromosomes. The telomeres contain condensed DNA material, giving stability to the chromosomes. The enzyme is a reverse transcriptase that carries its own RNA molecule, which is used as a template when it elongates telomeres, which are shortened after each cell cycle.
	Telomere A telomere is a region of highly repetitive DNA at the end of a linear chromosome that functions as a disposable buffer. Every time linear eukaryote chromosomes are DNA replication during late S-phase the DNA polymerase complex is incapable of replicating all the way to the end of the chromosome; if it were not for telomeres, this would quickly result in the loss of useful genetic information, which is needed to sustain a cell 's activities.
	Telophase Telophase is a stage in either meiosis or mitosis in a eukaryote cell reversing the effects of prophase and prometaphase events. During those events, the nucleus was dissolved and the chromatin in the cell was condensed into chromosomes. Telophase thus "cleans up" the secondary after effects of mitosis.
	Temazepam Temazepam is a powerful hypnotic drug, which is a benzodiazepine derivative. It possesses powerful anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, amnestic, sedative and skeletal muscle relaxant properties.
	Tempera Tempera is the primary type of artist's paint and associated Art techniques and materials that were prevalent in Europe's Middle Ages, and the required medium for Orthodox icons. It is paint made by binding pigment in an egg medium. However, the term tempera in modern times is also used by some manufacturers to refer to ordinary poster paint, which is a form of gouache that has nothing to do with real egg tempera.
	Temperate rain forest Temperate rain forests are coniferous or broadleaf forests that occur in the mid-latitudes in areas of high rainfall. Most of these occur in Oceanic-Moist Climates Temperate rain forests are distinguished from other temperate forests by a few factors: * Rainfall: high rainfall, usually from moisture-laden winds off the ocean.
	Tempest-Tost Tempest-Tost, published in 1951 in literature by Clarke Irwin, is the first novel in The Salterton Trilogy by Canada novelist Robertson Davies. The other two novels are Leaven of Malice and A Mixture of Frailties. The series was also published in one volume as The Salterton Trilogy in 1986 in literature.
	Temple A temple is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites . It is a general term for a house of worship. As a distinct term from those used to describe other religious structures, a temple is often viewed as a dwelling place of a god or gods.
	Temple of Artemis The Temple of Artemis, also known as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to Artemis completed around 550 BC at Ephesus under the Achaemenid dynasty of the Persian Empire. Nothing remains of the original temple, which was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
	Tempo In musical terminology, tempo is the speed or pace of a given musical piece. It is an extremely crucial element of sound, as it can affect the mood and difficulty of a piece. The plural of tempo in Italian is tempi. Some writers employ this plural when writing in English language.
	TEMPO 2,2,6,6-Tetramethylpiperidine 1-oxyl or TEMPO is a remarkably stable free radical with many applications in organic synthesis. TEMPO was discovered by chemists Lebelev and Kazarnowskii in 1960. It is prepared by oxidation of 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine. TEMPO is widely used in electron spin resonance spectroscopy as a probe for biological systems and also as a radical trap .
	Temporomandibular joint The temporomandibular joint is a Joint#Diarthrosis joints that connects the mandible to the temporal bone at the side of a skull. As a modified hinge joint, not only does the TMJ enable the jaw to open and close, it also enables the jaw to move forward and backward, as well as laterally.
	Tempura Tempura refers to classic Japanese cuisine deep frying batter-dipped seafood and vegetables. The Batter is made of ice cold water, flour, and egg yolks. Small dry bite-sized pieces of food are dipped in flour, then in batter, and then deep fried for 2-3 minutes.
	Temuco Temuco |- |align="center" colspan=2| |- |Founded|| 24th February, 1881, |- |Original Name|| Fuerte Recabarren |- |Region||Araucana |- |Area - City Proper ||  1131 E6 m |- |Population - City  - Density || 210.587 Inhabitants 113,9 Hab/km
	Ten Commandments The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, are a list of religious and moral imperatives which, according to religious tradition, were written by God and given to Moses on Biblical Mount Sinai in the form of two stone tablets. They feature prominently in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
	Ten-gallon hat A ten-gallon hat is a type of cowboy hat. The name came about because of a linguistic misunderstanding. Cowboy hats arrived in Texas via Mexico, with Mexican vaqueros who wore hats decorated with galloon around the crown. The Spanish word for "galloon" is "galn." Texas cowboys misunderstood the word "galn" for "gallon," and a false legend was born.
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	Tench The tench is a fish of the Cyprinid family, and is one of the commonest and most widely spread freshwater fishes of Europe. It thrives best in enclosed, preserved waters, with a clayey or muddy bottom and with an abundant vegetation; it avoids clear waters with stony ground, and is altogether absent from rapid streams.
	Tendon A tendon is a tough band of fibrous connective tissue that connects muscle to bone, or muscle to muscle. They are similar to ligaments except that ligaments join one bone to another. Tendons are designed to withstand tension. Typically tendons connect muscles to bones; together, a combination of tendons and muscles can only exert a pulling force.
	Tendril In botany, a tendril is a specialized Plant stem, leaf or petiole with a threadlike shape that is used by climbing plants for support and attachment, generally by twining around whatever it touches.
	Tenerife Tenerife, a Spain island, is the largest of the seven Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa.
	Tennessee Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the union. Tennessee is known as the "Volunteer State", a nickname it earned during the War of 1812, in which volunteer soldiers from Tennessee played a prominent role, especially during the Battle of New Orleans.
	Tennessee River *Chattanooga, Tennessee *Clifton, Tennessee *Crump, Tennessee *Decatur, Alabama *Florence, Alabama *Grand Rivers, Kentucky *Guntersville, Alabama *Harrison, Tennessee *Huntsville, Alabama *Killen, Alabama *Knoxville, Tennessee
	Tennessee Williams Thomas Lanier Williams III , better known by the pen name Tennessee Williams, was a major United States playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. The name "Tennessee" was a name given to him by college friends because of his southern accent and his father's background in Tennessee.
	Tennis Tennis is a game played between either two players or two teams of two players . Players use a stringed racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court. In some places tennis is still called lawn tennis to distinguish it from real tennis , an older form of the game that originated in France in the Middle Ages and is played indoors on a very different court.
	Tennis ball A tennis ball is the bouncing ball designed for the sport of tennis, but also used in some other games, such as squash tennis and lotball.